Sentences with phrase «not abandoning the church»

You are right, things have not always gone as they should; people sin; but Jesus Christ has not abandoned His Church.

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«many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communities.»

I beg Thom Rainer (and all the Seminary Presidents and Mega Church Pastors who endorsed I Am a Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communChurch Pastors who endorsed I Am a Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communChurch Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communchurch, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communchurch, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communchurch members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communchurch members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communchurch by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communities.

The machinery that pulled up to the church to do the re-roofing was a sign to the neighbors that they were not to be abandoned, at least not by this church.

Every year, millions of people abandon the institutional way of doing church, not because they are abandoning God, Jesus, or the Church, but because they find that intimate relationships with others and loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning is a more natural way of following Jesus and living life as His discchurch, not because they are abandoning God, Jesus, or the Church, but because they find that intimate relationships with others and loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning is a more natural way of following Jesus and living life as His discChurch, but because they find that intimate relationships with others and loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning is a more natural way of following Jesus and living life as His disciples.

Their efforts range from planting a flower to helping hundreds of homeless people not get evicted from an abandoned church.

I beg Thom Rainer (and all the Seminary Presidents and Mega Church Pastors who endorsed I Am a Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church or are abandoning Jesus, but because they want to be the church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and communChurch Pastors who endorsed I Am a Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church or are abandoning Jesus, but because they want to be the church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and communChurch Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church or are abandoning Jesus, but because they want to be the church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and communchurch, not because they have given up on church or are abandoning Jesus, but because they want to be the church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and communchurch or are abandoning Jesus, but because they want to be the church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and communchurch and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and communities.

The Pastor was trying to get someone to join the church and this person wouldn't join because he said The most so called religious or Christian people will abandon you when you are at lowest.

That hasn't caused me to abandon the church, but to try to live out the principles of church in a meaningful way in my own life and with those I interact with.

One can abandon the the outward manifestations of a belief by not praying and not going to church etc., but doing so does not abandon ones belief.

He has not been asked to abandon membership in the church.

That Francis and his first companions made a fuss over the restoration of abandoned churches and the cleaning of ill - kept churches was not simply because the Poverello had dreams in which he was told to rebuild churches; those dreams and that work had a deeper meaning.

The Catholic church is not necessary, as such they are more akin to any other organization that can be abandoned and suffer extinction.

We don't have to abandon Jesus to abandon the unholy marriage between Donald Trump and the white American Church.

This simple fact of human life as well as of the Church is often overlooked by the progressive, when he screams that developments are too slow, that antiquated habits and customs are not abandoned fast enough, especially with regard to canon law.

But if that is done by the Church's magisterium, it can only be through propositions which are not themselves absolute dogma but serious and valid items of knowledge (in varying degrees, of course, and of very many different kinds), but knowledge which in principle is subject to revision and capable of improvement, and which can be deepened, clarified, given greater discrimination, improved in this or that respect, or even abandoned.

Regarding those who have stopped «going to church», we have seen many who have not abandoned Christ, but rather have left to follow Jesus in the world.

That does not mean that the Church should abandon Western Civilization to its own dismal devices.

The crisis is not that millions of Catholics are going to abandon the Church.

Black churches need not abandon their historic mission agendas but rather should consider them in the light of new realities in the world where mission must be implemented.

You may be disloyal to the Church and fallen away but the Church has not abandoned you.

The church, she insists, is not a voluntary arrangement that we can abandon just because we do not happen to like some of the other people in the group.

It has more than a little bit to do with keeping the pews full of faithful Latinos too, as non-Latino Catholics abandon the church don't you think?

That historical dimension should not be abandoned at graduation but should be brought to bear on the sermon, church school teaching and pastoral counseling.

Jesus» actions, then, are symbolic of adoption; abandoned children are to be brought into the church and raised by Christian parents, not in order to exploit their labor potential but because the biblical God is one with a special concern for the poor, the homeless, the weak and the abandoned.

(John Henry Newman argued more than a century ago that the churches that had maintained strong doctrines on Mary are those that had not abandoned strong christological ones.)

The church has a skeleton of organiztion (to use your wording) and we have abandoned that and allowed women to assume roles within it that they are clearly not capable or handling.

Because it is not so much that the community has abandoned the church, but that the church has not kept up with the community.

Such a thing would not merely mean that the Church's knowledge and certainty can slowly grow, which is indisputable, but that a clarity and certainty already achieved can be abandoned once more, and that by a positive measure taken by the magisterium itself.

Yes the founding fathers wanted abandon the notion of a «Church of England» in the United States, they also did not want the Government to regulate religion.

No matter how deplorable institutional church gets, we should not abandon this.

When the Protestants broke away from the Roman Catholic Church they did not abandon the ides of the Church.

I can't imagine anyone sitting around thinking to themselves: «Gee, I wonder whether I should choose to be straight, which is considered normal and acceptable; or perhaps choose to be gay, which is roundly condemned by a large percentage of otherwise intelligent people, considered a sin by many churches, was once illegal in most states, will likely result in my being shunned, abused, ridiculed, abandoned, abused, and beaten — possibly killed; will deny me many rights and advantages available to married people; may cost me jobs; and which in general will set me outside of society, marginalized and ostracized.

The problem remains that not much about churches has changed since young people abandoned them during the «60s.

According to a leading Roman Catholic theologian, Charles Curran, ever since Vatican II the emphasis in his church has been on the use of unction for illness, though the last desperate remedy of unction in extremis has not been abandoned.

Holistic life connections is not about starting or tweaking any church program or ministry, but rather abandoning the whole sinking ship, and joining with community groups that already exist, not as a way to support and prop up «the church,» but for the purpose of being the church.

Edith suffered because her loving mother could not understand why her daughter was abandoning her Jewish heritage, even as Edith believed she was deepening it by entering the Church.

Even though I did not receive teaching from a Church setting but rather from a marketplace ministry setting where they taught us «Externally Focused Church, Organic Church, which was really a good thing (new wine skin initiatives) but when we implemented and embraced it, we found that its not quite effective and in the end the leaders abandoned the project and most of us were in the dark on what is the next good program or system to follow.

The One Church is growing and unless the established Churches abandon their doctrine, rules and get rid of all their regalia, they will continue to die, but Jesus Church will not die.

Let us indeed abandon church and seek the kingdom of God (for which not just the Lord, but also the New Testament church gave her blood).

I'm still not comfortable with the idea that the Church as a whole must abandon the whole vision concept / lingo / process.

Another study showed that young Catholic dropouts did not see themselves as abandoning religion when they left the church (Dean R. Hoge, Converts.

People want the Church to abandon scripture and become a political tool to advance their ideas, not Gods ideas.

If, in such a situation, the Church does not let its voice be heard clearly and persistently, then it is abandoning the government to its fate and denying the Lord Jesus Christ.

For people isolated by stigma and fear, it's powerful to hear an acknowledgement that this kind of suffering exists, that it doesn't mean God has abandoned them, and that people in the church might be willing to walk through it with them.

No, it's not a virtue to abandon the church, but I claim it's not a virtue to stay either.

More likely is that these articles are reporting similar observation on the growing tribe of those who have left the institutional church, but who have not abandoned their faith.

So, we ought not abandon such an idea because some have taken it to its illogical conclusion — and we should be very careful of saying that uses of the word «missional» today are endorsing the ideas that led to such deep missiological problems in the World Council of Churches.

So fruitful that, according to John Paul II, it points to the agency of Divine Providence: «In engaging great cultures for the first time, the Church can not abandon what she has gained from her inculturation in the world of Greco - Latin thought.

You must understand that this is my concern, which for the sake of the Church and for the sake of my people, I shall not abandon, that no one should lose the chance for forgiveness which still is being offered to us, perhaps for the last time in the history of our people.